Quotemeal for Monday, May 22, 2006

"The spiritual life is a stern choice. It is not a consoling retreat from the difficulties of existence, but an invitation to enter fully into that difficult existence, and there apply the Charity of God, and bear the cost."

— Evelyn Underhill

More Quotemeal

"When you have nothing left but God, then for the first time you become aware that God is enough."

— Maude Royden —

"Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last."

— George Swinnock —

"Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended on man."

— Francis J. Spellman —

"When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen:..."

— Edward Teller —